Improvement in farm-gates



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Letters Patent No. 92,914, dated July/'20, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT 1N FARM-GATES.

The Schedule lreferred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe same.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that LSIuoN VREELAND, of Cuba, in the county ot' Allegany, and State of New York, lhave invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Farm-Gates and the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference -being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this s'pecification, in wliich- Figure 1 represents a side view of the gate partly open, and supported on the 'stationary anged roller near the centre of the whole space for opening.

Figure 2 shows a perspective view of a4 section of fence, with the gate swung round wide open, showing the llange, roller-hinge, steadyingpiu, and hook, on which the gate is supported to operate.

- My invention consists in the construction ofl the hinge, on which the flanged friction-roller is placed, for the gate to be moved laterally on until it is balanced, and the pin in the gate which locks into thehinge, to support and steady the gate when combined with the hook under the bottom rail, and the stationary flanged friction-roller, to support the gate in a line until it balances.

To enable others to make and use my improvements, I will describe them more fully, reterring to the drawings and the letters thereon.

The gate A is made like any ordinary board-fence gate, with three or more rails parallel to each other, placed at suitable distances apart, and secured ltogether by posts or cleats, three in number, with the necessary braces.

The gate-posts B and C are set firmly in the ground, or otherwise, at the required distance apart.

About midway vbetween the gate-posts B and C, I

place a short stump or post, D, in'which is a friction-A roller, d, with flanges on its edges, leaving the width between the flanges the thickness of 'the bottorurail.

The roller d, heilig on a line with the fence Ewsupports the gate A, when partly open, from being swayed vor moved by the wind or other cause, and aids veryis diiven a metal hook, b', which steadies the bottonrl ot' the gate, and holds it up snugly to the post when either closed or open.

The main hinge G, on which the gate is balanced for turning to open to its fullest capacity, is constructed ,with a socket, I, and strong bar, which is put angle-ways through the upperrportion of the gatepost B.

Into the socket I is fitted the stemof the hinge G, which is provided with a flanged iiiction-roller, a, for the top rail ot the gate to rest and move laterally ou.

In the middle cleat e is a pin, t', placed in such a position that. when the gate is partly open, and moved to the balancing-point on the roller a, the piu t will lock on to the top of' the recess in the hinge G, and hold the gate as steady, while it is swung round to open, as it' it were hung or ixed on stationary hinges.

Thus, it will he seen that all ofthe most objectionable ditculties experienced iu other sliding and turning farm-gates, are obviated by my simple-constructed roller-hinge and connecting-pin and central fixed' roller.

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The flanged friction-roller hinge G, as constructed in combination with the pin t to lock into it, the' steadying-hook 1), and stationary-flanged roller d, all arranged to operate substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof, Iv hereunto subscribe my name, in the presence ot'- f What I claim as my invention, and desire to secureV 

